Ebony & Walnut - Custom rocking chair

This sculpted rocking chair is built from 2’’ Canadian Black Walnut and Ebony also accented with Ebony plugs. This is a large version ( 5’ 11’’ – 6’2’’ ).

The leg/headrest design borrows more form the Maloof design with legs extending like horns and with a more stylized bottom curve to the headrest but still using a coopered headrest to keep the grain lines matched to the seat and arms.

We used a beautiful piece of jet black Ebony, sliced it into 2.29mm thick grain matched pieces and used it as the front lamination to add a very unique contrast to the Walnut.

Features

- Grain matched Ebony form fitting flexible back braces- coopered headrest- exposed Maloof joinery- hand carved seat, arms, and joints- Truly a unique and beautiful custom rocking chair that is about as comfortable as they come

We are finally happy with our picture taking abilities, I finally figured out a few settings on my camera to achieve the results we wanted. I do want to get a gray background sometime soon. I have my work cut out for me now to re-take pics of chairs we still have here, but i’ll have to settle with the pics of the sold chairs and tables.

This one is a great example of why walnut is often used for these chairs…beautiful! It seems the back braces are made from walnut laminations with ebony fronts, is that correct? I’m curious if the walnut lam’s are strong enough? I assume they are. Also like the maloof look head rest, more appealing to me.

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